1819 in art

Events

• Francisco Goya begins the series of "Black Paintings", working directly onto the walls of his dining and sitting rooms at his home, Quinta del Sordo, near Madrid.

Works

Théodore Géricault, The Raft of the Medusa, 1818-1819, Musée du Louvre, Paris

• Washington Allston – Florimell's Flight
• Marie Ellenrieder – Self-portrait as a painter
• Théodore Géricault – Le Radeau de la Méduse (The Raft of the Medusa)
• Francisco Goya – The Madhouse and A Procession of Flagellants
• Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin – Christ on the Knees of the Virgin
• Louis Hersent – Abdication of Gustavus Vasa (destroyed in 1848)
• John Martin - The Fall of Babylon
• Bertel Thorvaldsen – Christ and the Twelve Apostles
• John Trumbull – Declaration of Independence
• J. M. W. Turner – Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Births

• January 19 – William Powell Frith, painter (died 1909)
• February 8 – John Ruskin, artist and critic (died 1900)
• March 20 – Roger Fenton, photographer (died 1869)
• June 3 – Johan Jongkind, painter (died 1891)
• June 10 – Gustave Courbet, painter (died 1877)
• June 23 – Henry Peters Gray, portrait painter (died 1877)
• September 20 – Théodore Chassériau, painter (died 1856)
• December 19 - Arthur Gilbert, painter (died 1895)
• date unknown – Helena Sophia Isberg, (died 1875)

Deaths

• January 15 - Gustav Philipp Zwinger, painter and etcher (born 1779)
• February 16 – Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, French painter (born 1750)
• May 2 – Mary Moser, painter (born 1744)
• May 10 – Mariano Salvador Maella, Spanish painter and engraver (born 1739)
• August 1 - Pierre-Adrien Pâris, French architect, painter and designer (born 1745)

• November 2 - Edward Bird, painter (born 1772)
• November 5 – Alexander Kucharsky, Polish portrait painter (born 1741)
• date unknown
  • Anna Brita Sergel, textile artist of the royal Swedish court (born 1733)
  • Archibald Skirving, Scottish portrait painter (born 1749)
  • Gustava Johanna Stenborg, Swedish artist (born 1776)